melbourne chapter

I am heading off to Italy in a couple of months and picked up a Canon 350D 8 mega-pixel Digital SLR from Michael’s cameras in Melbourne. Will have to say, I am absolutely loving it. I got a 18-55mm Lens and a 75-300mm Lens as well with a 1gb fast compact flash card with an extended 5 year warranty and 2 hour training lesson. Everything about the camera seems great, it is a decent weight, nice and compact and very responsive. The alternative was a Nikon which are nice, but it didn’t have the same feel when you picked it up, it was lighter and a bit larger. It also was only a 6 mega-pixel (probably more than enough), but I liked the fact we can share the memory cards between our small Ixus that we have taken travelling in the past.

Hopefully I will be able to post some photos of what I have been experimenting with if any turn out nice enough. I will buy myseslf a UV filter today, and most likely a second battery and second gb card. I am also interested in trying to pick up a polarizing filter as I love photos down at the beach. The modes that it comes with are great and I have been having a good time playing around with the depth of field shots.

I will muck around with the camera for the next few months and see what I can come up with. I will post some of my experimental shots up here and they should be large/crisp enough to make some nice backdrops for my desktop. I will also have to hunt for this photographer that I found one day that had posted more than 3 years of hi-res experimental work for dual-monitor high res backdrops. They are stunning.